“So perhaps the onus should be on the people who decided to do that” They’re doing, you’re complaining. All the X.org software is there for all the detractors

“So perhaps the onus should be on the people who decided to do that” They’re doing, you’re complaining. All the X.org software is there for all the detractors to pick up and maintain. That is what happened when the XFree maintainers didn’t want to accept patches from a larger group: it was forked into X.org. Now the people doing the work want to do Wayland. If it doesn’t please you, then by all means carry on with the old stuff and show them how it should’ve been done.